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Molecular Nutrition brings to life the power of foods, bridging the science of nutriomics to the fine art of cooking. This book is a must read for all who promote healthy eating. Molecular Nutrition: The Practical Guide presents nutritional medicine in a brand new way, one that not only offers up a great deal of valuable information for the clinician, but also one that inspires and causes one to ponder deeper questions about physiology and how we clinicians can optimize care of our patients. Molecular Nutrition: The Practical Guide begins with introductory sections designed to orient the reader and fill in necessary knowledge gaps for use in later chapters. For instance, a chapter on Eating Patterns shifts our thinking away from summary verdicts on whether specific foods are “good” or “bad” and instead asserts that it is the overall pattern of food molecule intake that needs to be understood. However, the true focus of the book is on how molecules in foods interact with molecules in the body but with several twists. First, that the basic principles of dietetics and nutritional medicine fail to address the intricacies of personalized medicine and therefore foods should be viewed as a collage of individual molecules rather than an averaging of calories, protein, and other abstract dietary parameters. Second, that the target of food molecules is a metabolomics network unique to a specific patient and not a generic disease state. Third, that the interaction of food molecules and the target molecules occurs in a complex fashion, which is possible to understand, and here is the important point, that this interaction can be harnessed. Lastly, these mainly theoretical points are translated into real-life examples of wellness, aging, cardio-metabolic risk reduction, and cancer medicine without excluding standard dietary concepts but incorporating a fresh look at the culinary arts.